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 

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

 to develop agriculture. 



MARCH, 1938 

 VOL 16 NO. 3 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation at 1501 West Washington Road, Mendota, III. 

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

 Entered as second class matter at post office. MendotA, 

 IllinoiE. September 11, 1936. AccepUnce for mailing 

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

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

 communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois 

 Agricultural Association RECORD. 608 So. Dearborn St., 

 Chicago. The individual membership fee of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The fee 

 includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD. Postmaster: 

 Send notices on Form 3578 and undeliverable copies 

 returned under Form 3579 to editorial offices. 608 S. 

 Dearborn St., Chicago. III. 



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

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



linois Agricultural Association 



Creates! State Farm Organization in America 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, Talmage DeFkees Smithboro 



Corporate Secretary, Paul E. Mathias Chicago 



Field Secretary, Geo, E, Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. CowLES Bloomingtoo 



Ass't Treasurer, A. R. Wright Varna 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congressional District) 



1st to 11th E. Harris, Grayslake 



t2th E. E. Houghtby, Shabbooa 



13th Leo M. Knox, Morrison 



14th _ Otto Steffey. Stronghurst 



15th _ M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



16th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th „...C. M. Smith, Eureka 



18th W. A. Dennis, Paris 



19th...^ „ Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



2l5t Dwight Hart, Sharpsburg 



22nd A. O. Edcert, Belleville 



23fd _ 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 



OflFice C. E. Johnston 



Organization G. E. Metzger 



Produce Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Publicity _ George Thiem 



Safety. _...C. M. Seagraves 



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 C. E. Strand, Mgr. 



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



Illinois Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Secy. 



111. Farm Bureau Scrum Ass'n S. F. Russell, Secy. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange.. ..H. W. Day, Mgr. 

 Illinois Grain Corporation..Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 



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



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



Illinois Producers' Cieameries....F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 

 J. B. Countiss Sales Mgr. 



GEORGE THIEM, Editor 



^ARROWING and oats- 

 <^# /•: sowing will be under 



f I way in Southern Illinois 

 by the time this issue of the Record 

 comes off the press. Farming un- 

 der the new AAA of 1938 is not 

 going to be a complicated job de- 

 spite what opponents of surplus con- 

 trol and fair farm prices have to say 

 about it. The new AAA is going 

 to help us farm the way we ought to 

 farm anyway. The act doesn't dic- 

 tate or tell you how much of any- 

 thing you shall plant. No farmer is 

 required to operate his farm on a 

 sound, soil maintenance basis unless 

 he wants to. But if he does insist 

 on doing his worst to pile up sur- 

 pluses and wreck the price level, then 

 he shouldn't expect to get a com or 

 wheat loan and share in parity pay- 

 ments to the same extent as a co- 

 operator. 



From Sterling, 111. Manager South- 

 wick of the National Reemployment 

 Service is reported to have said: "in 

 spite of the large number of idle men 

 now on relief we have nearly twice 

 as many farm jobs open as we have 

 men to fill them. The jobs are all 

 good ones in comfortable homes and 

 in some instances tenant houses are 

 avaliable for married men. Most 

 men who are on relief don't want to 

 leave the city for the farm." 



paper of the Central Christian 

 Church, Jacksonville this: "Central 

 Christian Church office has received 

 many requests for help from people 

 willing to pay good wages and pro- 

 vide employment. At present we are 

 unable to meet this demand. No 

 one seems to want to work. We 

 have called dozens of jjeople and all 

 in vain." 



Yet Morgan County Relief Ad- 

 ministration reported a case load oo 

 Feb. 1 of 1033 with 671 classed as 

 employables. 



Whether or not these news reports 

 are accurate, most of us believe that 

 there are too many able-bodied per- 

 sons on relief who don't want to 

 work for a living; that they are look- 

 ing to relief as a career and will not 

 work so long as they can eat without 

 it. We were brooght up in a home 

 where work was glorified, where 

 every child was taught to work if 

 he expected to eat. There are no 

 doubt a great many disabled and un- 

 employable persons on relief, but 

 there are others who should have 

 practical rather than sentimental 

 treatment. If it comes to a choice 

 between starving and working, even 

 a slacker will work. 



The Resettlement Administration 

 has the unenviable task of resettling 

 many home-loving people in Will- 

 iamson county. III. who don't want 

 to be resettled. A substantial num- 

 ber of farmers in the western part 

 of the county are irritated over the 

 project there to dam Crab Orchard 

 Creek, make a big lake, take over 

 about three townships, reforest the 

 land, stock the lake with fish, build 

 cabins and make of it an extensive 

 recreational center. Farm Bureau 

 members there have asked the I A A, 

 their state organization, to assist 

 them in halting the project if pos- 

 sible or at least to get fair compensa- 

 tion for their farms and homes. 



From the Pastoral Helper, official 



Much of the land in the area is of 

 little value, but that in the bottoms 

 where some 46 Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers reside is said to be the best in 

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