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tees will be elected. In the township or 

 local area, farmers who cooperate in the 

 program shall elect annually a committee 

 of not more than three members. They 

 shall also elect annually a delegate to a 

 county convention for the election of a 

 county committee. At the count)' con- 

 vention, annually, a county committee 

 of three farmers shall be chosen. This 

 committee shall select a secretary who 

 may be the county agricultural adviser, 

 or otherwise. If the county adviser is 

 not selected he becomes ex officio a mem- 

 ber of the county committee, but without 

 the power to vote. 



The state committee is to be appointed 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture and shall 

 consist of from three to five farmers. 

 The state Director of Extension shall be 

 ex officio a member of the state commit- 

 tee. 



If any farmer is dissatisfied with his 

 allotment of com, wheat or other basic 

 crop, he can enter a complaint before 

 a review committee composed of three 

 farmers appointed by the Secretary. If 

 the allotment by the Review Committee 

 is not satisfactory, the farmer then may 

 file a bill in equity in court. 



When the government makes a com- 

 modity loan the corn, wheat or other crop 

 in storage shall be the sole collateral. 

 Four Laboratories 



The vocal minority who think the farm 

 problem can be solved by grinding up 

 corn stalks, straw, soybeans etc. into 

 industrial products got some considera- 

 tion too. The Secretary is authorized and 

 directed to set up four regional research 

 laboratories to develop new outlets and 

 markets for farm products. A total of 

 $4,000,000 annually is set aside for 

 this purpose. The Department of Com- 

 merce also gets an appropriation of $1,- 

 000,000 a year to promote the sale of 

 farm commodities abroad. 



The Secretary of Agriculture (he ought 

 to keep busy) is authorized to make com- 

 plaints to the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission with respect to rates, charges, 

 tariffs and practices relating to the 

 transportation of farm products. 



The bill provides for setting up a 

 federal crop insurance corporation for 

 wheat with $100,000,000 of capital 

 stock to begin operating on the 1939 

 crop. 



Although the bill became effective 

 10 days after passage by the Senate, the 

 crop loan provisions do not become ef- 

 fective until the 1938 crop is produced. 

 The soil conservation provisions become 

 effective at once. 



While the program does not guarantee 

 parity prices for basic farm commodities 

 it does give assurance of reasonable 

 stability of prices at levels somewhat 

 below parity yet higher than the ruinous 

 price levels farmers have experienced 



in the past. It remains to be seen whether 

 farmers will cooperate with the program 

 in such numbers as to make it workable 

 and permanent. 



A few examples will illustrate how the stor- 

 age program will work. In all of the ex- 

 amples It is assumed that the farm corn acreage 

 allotment is 100 acres, the marketing per- 

 centage 80 percent, the marketing percentage 

 of the farm acreage allotment (80 percent 

 times 100 acres) 80 acres, and the normal 

 yield per acre 30 bushels. 



Example A: If the acreage planted is 100 

 acres, no corn is used for silage and the yield 

 is normal or better, the storage amount is 

 the normal production of the acreage in excess 

 of the marketing percentage of the farm acre- 

 age allotment, or }0 (normal yield) times 20 

 (acreage in excess), or 600 bushels. 



Example B: If the acreage planted is 100 

 acres, 40 acres are used for silage and the 

 yield is normal or better, the storage amount 

 is also ascertained and will be the same as in 

 example A. 



Example C. — If the acreage planted is 100 

 acres, no corn is used for silage, and the 

 actual yield is 20 bushels to the acre (less 

 than normal), the storage amount will be the 

 amount by which the actual production (100 

 acres times 20 bushels) or 2,000 bushels, ex- 

 ceeds the normal production of the marketing 

 percentage of the farm-acreage allotment (}0 

 bushels times 80 acres) or 2,400 bushels. 

 Since 2,000 is less than 2,400, there is no 

 storage amount. 



Example D. — If the acreage planted is 

 100 acres, 30 acres of corn is used for silage, 

 and the actual yield is 20 bushels (less than 

 normal) the storage amount will be the same 

 as in example C, where there was no storage 

 amount. 



Example E. - — If the acreage planted is 100 

 acres, 90 acres of corn is used for silage, and 

 the yield is normal, the storage amount will be 

 the actual production of the acreage not used 

 for silage (30 bushels times 10 acres), or 300 

 bushels. 



Illinois Congressmen 



Give Bill 22 Votes 



Illinois Congressmen gave 22 votes 

 FOR the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 

 1938. Only three representatives voted 

 AGAINST the measure, namely Noah' 

 Mason, Oglesby, of the 12th district, 

 Chauncey Reed, West Chicago, 11th 

 district, and Ralph Church, Evanston, 

 10th district, all Republicans. 



Those voting FOR the measure are: 

 Arthur W. Mitchell, Raymond Mc- 

 Keough, Edw. A. Kelly, Harry P. 

 Beam, Adolph J. Sabath, Thos. J. 

 O'Brien, Leonard W. Schuetz, Leo Koc- 

 ialkowski, Jas. McAndrews, all Demo- 

 crats of Chicago. 



Leo. E. Allen. Galena, 13th district, 

 Everett M. Dirksen, Pekin, I6th dis- 

 trict, L. C. Arends, Melvin, 1 7th dis- 

 trict. Republicans. 



Chester D. Thompson, Rock Island, 

 I4th district, Leslie L. Boyer, Quincy, 

 15th district, Jas. A. Meeks, Danville, 

 18th district, Hugh M. Rigney, Arthur, 

 19th dist., Scott Lucas, Havana, 20th 

 dist., Frank W. Fries, Carlinville. 21st 



dist., Edwin M. Sdiaefer, Belleville, 

 22nd dist., Laurence F. Arnold, New- 

 ton, 23rd dist., Claude V. Parsons, Gol- 

 conda, 24th dist., Kent E. Keller, Ava, 

 25th dist.. Democrats. 



Neither of the congressmen-at-large, 

 Lewis M. Long (D), Sandwich, and 

 E. V. Champion, (D) Peoria, voted on 

 the bill. 



Referring to the opposition vote. 

 President Earl C Smith said: "I feel 

 sure the opposition of these congress- 

 men to the passage of this measure will 

 be very disappointing to the farmers of 

 their respective districts. 



"This bill is designed to bring about 

 a measure of stability in the prices of 

 basic farm commodities which means 

 more stable farm purchasing power a 

 more rapid exchange of goods and ser- 

 vices between city and farm, and in- 

 creased employment for the city and 

 industrial worker. The Chicago and 

 downstate congressmen who voted for 

 the measure are to be congratulated 

 and deserving of favorable considera- 

 tion by the voters of their respective 

 districts. '■ 



Editor's Observations 



(Continued from page 3) 



the county. More tljan 200 farms com- 

 prising some 30,000 acres or about 25 

 per cent of the farm land in the 

 county is involved. All of this area 

 will be taken out of the taxpaying 

 class, and at least one community high 

 school, Qrterville, would be deprived of 

 considerable revenue, (jovernment of- 

 ficials report that 5,000 acres have been 

 purchased already, that 90 farm owners 

 have refused to sign up. The project 

 was boosted as a make-work program for 

 an area which has a large population of 

 unemployed coal miners. 



Without passing on the merits of the 

 project or whether another lake and park 

 is of sufficient value to the public to 

 justify forcing happy, homeloving people 

 off of their land, the Association will in- 

 sist that farm owners in the area be 

 awarded adequate compensation based on 

 fair appraisals of the property and the 

 cost of re-establishing themselves on 

 farms and in homes of equivalent value 

 elsewhere. Information thus far revealed 

 indicates that appraisal values on the bet- 

 ter farms are much too low, also that they 

 take no account of coal deposits and 

 possible oil deposits under some farms. 

 There can be no justified opposition to 

 reforestation and flood control but any 

 project is highly questionable if it con- 

 demns any substantial amount of choice 

 farm lands where farmers are making a 

 good living. — E.G.T. 



MARCH. 1938 



