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ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized 

 namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, social 

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

 to develop agriculture. 



MARCH 

 VOL 17 



1939 

 NO. 3 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation at 1501 West Washington Road, Mendota. III. 

 Editorial Offices, 6C8 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. III. 

 Entered as second class matter at post office. Mendota, 

 Illinois. September 1 1 , 1936. Acceptance 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 undelivcrable copies 

 returned under Form 3579 to editorial offices, 608 S. 

 Dearborn St., Chicaeo, 111. 



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

 Director and Asst. 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) 



Isf to 11th Arthur States, Elwood 



12th E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 



13th Leo M. Knox, Morrison 



14th Otto Stef!ey, 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 



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 



Grain Marketing Harrison Fahrnkopf 



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. 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 Serum Ass'n S. F. Russell, Secy. 



Illino s F:irm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



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



III. Grain Corporation Frank Haines, Mgr. 



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



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



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

 J. B. Countiss Sales Mgr. 



MARCH. 1939 



GEORGE THIEM, Editor 





"Go over a bump, Susan, so the ash 

 will fall oil this cigar." 



vJ^^HE steady drift of farm 

 ^^"/^ lands into fewer hands 

 sj and larger units since the 

 war is partly the result of the defla- 

 tion in farm prices and land values 

 and partly due to the rise of power 

 farming. Not to be overlooked is 

 the ability some folks acquire to 

 make and save money faster than 

 others. Inability of borrowers to 

 meet interest and principal payments 

 based on former values has given life 

 insurance companies, banks and other 

 lenders possession of vast acreages. 

 Increased use of fast tractors adapted 

 to a wider range of farm jobs has 

 made it possible for one man to do 

 the work that two or three did be- 

 fore. 



These trends in farming are no 

 different than what is going on in 

 the cities where millions have lost 

 their homes and investments. But 

 we are more concerned with chang- 

 ing conditions in agriculture because 

 they hit close to home. We don't 

 like the idea of corporation farming. 

 The increase in non-resident owner- 

 ship and tenancy is not desirable. 

 And rural unemployment growing 

 out of farm mergers and wider use 

 of power equipment creates a prob- 

 lem which all of us who make up 

 the government cannot evade. 



It seems clear that conditions 

 should be made just as favorable as 

 possible, consistent with sound fi- 

 nancial principles, to help worthy 

 farm employees take the advancing 

 step to tenant farming. And what- 

 ever else can be done to help tenants 

 who want to buy farms of their own 



should have serious consideration. 

 The fact that hired men and tenants 

 are taking these advancing steps each 

 year, often with the aid of our farm 

 credit institutions, is proof that the 

 door of opportunity is still wide 

 open. 



Thinking farmers will not criticise 

 insurance companies and banks for 

 attempting to conserve their invest- 

 ments in farm lands. After all these 

 fiduciary institutions merely represent 

 the interests of millions of thrifty 

 people, mostly persons in modest cir- 

 cumstances, policyholders and deposi- 

 tors, who are attempting to protect 

 their dependents against going on re- 

 lief and themselves against want in 

 their old age. Insurance companies 

 and banks generally are taking good 

 care of the land in their possession 

 hoping to sell it back to worthy farm 

 operators who demonstrate their ca- 

 pacity to work intelligently and pay 

 for it. 



There is no easy road to farm or 

 home ownership. Ownership entails 

 sacrifice and extra effort, not without 

 their enjoyment, yet a road that many 

 do not care to follow. Ownership in- 

 volves extra responsibility, requires 

 a measure of self-discipline which 

 may become irksome. Maybe the 

 philospher who said "there is more 

 pleasure in pursuit than in posses- 

 sion " has got something there. We 

 know a top notch Illinois farmer who 

 is perfectly satisfied to be a renter. 

 He's willing to let the landlord worry 

 about paying taxes, repairing build- 

 ings and keeping up the interest on 

 the mortgage. Who shall say he is 

 wrong? 



The trouble with many of our up- 

 lift schemes is that they don't take 

 into account all the vagaries of hu- 

 man nature. A government can 

 divide up the land, as Mexico is do- 

 ing, but it will have difficulty in 

 maintaining the division status quo 

 very long. One owner will soon 

 trade his off for a mess of pottage. 

 Another will let his grow up to 

 weeds or gladly turn it over to an 

 industrious neighbor for board, 

 smoking tobacco and plenty of lei- 

 sure to go fishing. — E.G.T. 



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