other c.uises Ixyond the control of pro 

 ducers. . ." 



Tlic more recent liistorv of the Federal 

 I'arm Ho.irJ which i.ime into heini; as 

 a result of tlie Aizriciiltural Marketinu 

 Act sponsoreil hy PresiJent Hoover anJ 

 his Administration is still fresh in our 

 memories. Our organization did not tie 

 sire this legislation nor did it oppose the 

 measure We were willini; to ju'ive the 

 Administration the opportunity it asked 

 to soKe the farm problem tiirout;h the 

 or_i;am/ation of cooperative marketinu 

 associations and tiie stahili/ation corpora 

 tion. 



^'ou know something: about the enor 

 mous yields of wheal and tolton in iv.^S. 

 102') and lOsO. ^'oli knou that even in 

 those years export outlets for surplus 

 wheat, cotton. livestock ]voducts and 

 other farm commodities were seriously 

 declininc. ^'ou remember liow the prices 

 of cotton and w heat started on the loboc 

 pan in l')Sn. and then how Secretary of 

 Acriculture Arthur M. Hvde and tlie 

 Chairman ol the Federal Farm Board. 

 Alexander Le.upc. determined that . thetj 

 onlv solution to fast-fallint: farm prices 

 was a ilrastic reduction in acreai;e. 



Legge and Hyde Said 



Acain let un look at the record I 

 cjuote from a Washington. I). ( dispatch 

 published on |ulv i. \^)M): 



"Adjustment of production to the 

 domestic demand otters the onlv com- 

 plete answer to the farm price prob 

 lem. farmers were toM loilav by C hair 

 man Alexander Feu'ce of the Federal 

 I'arm Board and -Secretary of Auricul- 

 turc. Arthur NF Hyde . . C h.iirman 

 Fei;t;e and .Sec ret.irv Hvde talked over .1 

 nationwide radio hook-up Iheii 



addresses were supplement.d lo the 

 wculd wheat outlook report issued 

 yesterday bv the Department of Acri 

 culture, and marked the betrinnint' ot 

 a speakinc campai_i;n in the heart of 

 the hard winter wheat belt in the 

 west."' 



Atiain on Iidy ~. lOsO in a speech a' 

 Hastings. Nejiraska which opened the 

 Farm Board's campaiun to secure a 

 wholesale wheat acreage reduction, the 

 Associated Press c|uoted Chairman Fei;L:e 

 as follows: 



"It is our conclusion that a net reduc- 

 tion in production is essential if vou 

 arc i;oini: to obtain a reasonable price 

 for that which you produce. Ancl the 

 prosjram i wish to recommend is a 

 gradual slowint; down with the object 

 of eventually balancinc domestic pro 

 duction with domestic consumption. 

 If and when this is done the t.iritT ot 

 ■i2 cents a bushel will become fully 

 effective." 



2500 AT PEORIA MEETING 

 Left to right. Speakers Donald Kirk- 

 patrick. Earl C. Smith. George E. Metzger. 



On Aui^ust IJ. |Osl. a Washington. 

 D. ( . disj-iatch told of an all-day nieetini: 

 of the Federal Farm Board attended l->y 

 ■Sec retary of Agriculture. Arthur NF Hyde 

 and former CJiairman Alexander Feyce 

 (Mr. Fcuce had resiiined in March) 

 ( hairman lames C Stone lelcyraphed 

 the Governors ot fourteen cotton states 

 of the South urfuii; them to mo!iili/e 

 every available agency to induce pro- 

 ducers to plow under every third row ot 

 cotton. The tiovernment estimate showed 

 a production of 1 "^."iS i.DOO bales of cot- 

 ton that year and a carry-over of v.OdO.- 

 ()()() bales which had resulted in the low 

 est price in thirty-one years. 6~>^ .1 

 pound lor cotton tor October delivery 



It's Conclusive Proof 



I cite all these references as conclusive 

 proot th.it the principles of adjusting; 

 .icricidtural production to demand at fair 

 and reasonable prices and I believe 



the principle to be a sound one w.is 

 initi.ited duriny the JD's. that this pnn 

 ciple of surplus control has enjoyed the 

 support of leaders in both Republican and 

 Oemocralic administrations for more than 

 a decade. I cite theni also to show that 

 the Federal Farm Board Act, sincerely 

 and a.s^ressively administered as it was. 

 was powerless to brine about any ade- 

 cjuate and permanent solution to the prob- 

 lem of crop suriMuses and j-iarity price 

 maintenance. 



^X'ouId it not be well for the Farm 

 Bureau leaders of Illinois to brine these 

 statements to the attention of some of 

 our present-day paitisan friends when 

 they criticize the prot;ram of orcanizcd 

 agriculture.' 



But we have more evidence than the 



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IVfiriii sind Suli'iii 



VJ^^^ARM Bureau leaders from the 

 ^'"^X^ 0"" county organizations in the 



^_/ state who met at Salem and 

 Peoria, Sept. 20 and 21. not only voted 

 unanimously to aggressively support the 

 AAA program in the coming year, but 

 also made specific recommendations for 

 improvement of the Act and its admin- 

 istration. 



Ihe 000 Iciders who .ittended the 

 Salem meeting and the 2*100 at Peoria 

 liearei a vigorous presentation of recent 

 economic and political liistory with facts 

 about the AAA. by President Farl C. 

 Smith. 



The public forum on the AAA follow- 

 ing President Smith s address brought 

 forth recommendations, many of which 

 were enthusiastically applauded Some 

 of them arc as follows: 



Promptness in getting out individual 

 farm allotments of basic soil depleting 

 crops for next year before )an. 1, 1930: 

 the establishment of greater ecjuity in in- 

 dividual allotments between farms with 

 more attention to tillable crop acres and 

 fertility on each farm and less attention 

 to crop history; consideration of corn 

 and wheat as a single commodity in 

 measuring crop compliance; elimination 

 of the two-thirds majority rule in voting 

 on marketing c|uotas in favor of a sim- 

 ple majority; amendment of the Act to 

 put wheat and corn in the same market- 

 ing classification and thus remove the dis- 

 crimination against corn. (Under pres- 

 ent provisions of the Act wheat growers 

 are permitted to dispose ot their surplus 

 wheat above the cjuota amount by feed- 

 ing. C^orn farmers feel that wheat sur- 

 pluses should not be allowed to com]sete 

 with corn in this manner). 



Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel said 

 that Illinois leads all other states in the 

 number of farmer cooperatives. Tliese 

 organizations, which last year marketed 

 SI ~='. 000.000 of farm products .md h.in- 

 dled S2«>. OOO.OfJO of farm supplies, have 

 developed along two lines. F'irst. to give 

 the farmer better bargaining power in 

 the sale of his products, and, second, to 

 reduce cost of farm supplies of guar- 

 anteed cjuality through cooperative pur- 

 chasing. All these cooj-'erative services 

 he said have been coordinated with the 

 Farm Bureau for greater safety and 

 service to members. 



George F. Metzger. field secretary, ex- 

 plained some of the duties of Farm Bu- 

 reau leaders in forming policies and in 

 getting them administered. Directors 

 should direct policies and leave admin- 

 istrative matters to the man.igement. he 

 said. No director should accept respon- 

 sibility as a member of the board unless 

 prepared to give attention and thought 

 to his job. 



FESTIVAL C 

 Eb Harris 



committee o 



over. 



CHIEF PI 

 Charles 



La Salle 



gobbled, wo 



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Harry N( 

 Drake ol ll 

 lAA-Farm 

 end the "fie 



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