OFHCEHS OF FARM ADVISEHS ASSOCIATION 

 Holding their annual business meeting during Farm and Home Week, iarm ad- 

 visers oi Illinois named oiiicers to serve their state association for the coming year. 

 Seated, left to right, are T. W. May. vice-president. Madison county: I. E. Harris, presi- 

 dent. Champaign: and E. A. Bierbaum, secretary-treasurer. Union. Directors standing, 

 leit to right, are: H. C. Wheeler, Lawrence: I. Q. Scott, Douglas; Edwin Bay, Sangamon, 

 and L. I. Hager, Marshall-Putnam. Directors Wayne A. Gilbert, Stark, and E. C. Foley. 

 Boone, were not present 



Record AHendance at 



Farm and Home Week 



^^*^USIEST man on the University 

 ^-/J of Illinois campus during Farm 



^J and Home Week, January 9 

 - 13, was W. H. "Bill" Young, custo- 

 dian of classrooms for the college of 

 agriculture. Into his lap fell the job 

 of assigning rooms to accommodate 

 the ever swelling attendance which by 

 the Week's end reached 4288, or 500 

 more than the 1938 record. 



Greatest number of calls for addi- 

 tional space came from instructors in 

 corn breeding and cooperative market- 

 ing. Came such a call from R. W. 

 Bartlett, assistant professor of agricul- 

 tural economics, who was to lead a 

 round table discussion of the question 

 "Do Illinois dairymen want a milk 

 control law?" Interest in the problem 

 brought 100 dairy folks, overflowed 

 the meeting place half hour before the 

 discussion was to begin. 



Around the table to have a go at 

 the issue were Dr. Bartlett, chairman; 

 E. G. Eckhoff, Pure Milk Association, 

 Chicago; A. D. Lynch, Sanitary Milk 

 Producers, St. Louis; Hugh Mainland, 

 Mid-West Dairymen's Company, Rock- 

 ford; Charles Smith, regional AAA 

 Administrator, Chicago; Wilfred Shaw, 

 Illinois Agricutural Association; Fred 

 L. Shipley, AAA market administrator, 

 St. Louis; and E. W. Tiedeman, Sani- 

 tary Milk Producers, St. Louis. 



When the debate got under way, 

 comments from the floor were frequent. 



Chief problem of milk producers, dairy- 

 men decided, is to get more income. 

 They agreed that a simple milk con- 

 trol law, properly written and admin- 

 istered, would step up producers' pay. 

 Leon C. Coller, AAA Administrator on 

 the Indianapolis market, concurred 

 when he cited court tests in which 

 Indiana's law has been found valid. 



Cooperative marketing gave way to 

 world trade in the Tuesday afternoon 

 session which was attended by 300 

 dairy, grain and livestock marketing 

 students. L. J. "Larry" Norton, pro- 

 fessor of agricultural economics, speak- 

 ing on "consequences of the trend to 

 ward governmental intervention in 

 marketing," sounded the first note of 

 the world trade discussion. Said he: 

 "Every government in the world is in- 

 volved in the wheat market." 



Leaders in the debate which followed 

 finally agreed that the policy of the 

 United States in raising trade barriers 

 and demanding debt repayment in gold 

 instead of goods is largely to blame for 

 the slump in world trade of basic com- 

 modities. 



Said Prof. Norton: "War is likely 

 because nations will try to control their 

 own basic commodities. U. S. was the 

 worst offender in barring European 

 goods — in forcing other countries to 

 take their present nationalistic stands." 



Citing as an example, the outrages 

 which recently occurred in Germany, 



Prof. Norton pointed out: "Germans 

 can prosper only when they have ample 

 supplies of our raw materials and a 

 market for finished products. What is 

 going on in that country could never 

 happen in a prosperous one." 



During the lively debate, Ralph 

 Brown, Chicago grain broker, said that 

 only one-seventh to one-fourth of the 

 wheat produced in the U. S. is exported 

 and that the domestic price is largely 

 set by exports. G. L. Jordan, assistant 

 professor of agricultural economics, 

 showed that while U. S. exports of 

 farm commodities have been declining, 

 exports of manufactured products have 

 been gaining. 



E. W. Tiedeman, president of Sani- 

 tary Milk Producers, held that if corn, 

 wheat and cotton prices are maintained, 

 producers of these commodities will 

 quit dairying and leave the field clear 

 to bona fide milk producers. Indirect- 

 ly then, the present low prices of milk 

 can be traced to sluggish world trade. 



Brisk applause followed Tiedeman's 

 comment that farmers must carry the 

 expense of surplus control if the plan 

 is to succeed in the future. He de- 

 clared that it is fundamentally wrong 

 to ask taxpayers to carry the burden 

 indefinitely and suggested processing 

 taxes to support a farm program. 



E. D. Lawrence, McLean county, sup- 

 ported crop control. He said: "If 

 we are to control price we must first 

 control production. Unhampered, pro- 

 ducers' movements tend to swing too 

 far. The present corn price of 57 cents 

 for example, can be expected to hold 

 down hog numbers in 1939 and "40." 



MUMFORD PORTHATT 

 Robert Kimbell, Ir. unveiling his grand- 

 father's portrait which was presented to 

 the University during Farm and Home 

 Week. 



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